Conflict and mistrust between the West and the Soviet Union is possible to trace as far back as 1917 when the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia led to the creation of the world's first communist state. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to defeat the Bolsheviks. ... The official ideology of the USSR stated the inevitability of conflict with western capitalist states and class struggle would lead to a world revolution. ... It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russ...

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